NYC Municipal Archives: An Authorized Guide

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New York City Municipal Archives: An Authorized Guide for Family Historians

by Aaron Goodwin

Harry Macy Jr., Consulting Editor

August 2016. Softcover, 7 x 10
245 pages.

This book answers the need for historians, genealogists, students, and others to have a clear, rational description of the relevant public records—where they are located, what they contain, and how they can be accessed—of the City of New York and its predecessor cities, towns, and villages.

Extensive coverage is given to vital records of births, marriages, and deaths; court records; real estate records; and photographs. Less well known collections are also be covered, including early records of the Dutch and English colonial eras; extensive Farm Histories that trace deed chains for former Manhattan farms to their earliest days; records of the Civil War Volunteer Soldiers’ Family Aid Fund; and Almshouse Records, which span 200 years and provide information on the inmates of numerous City institutions.